John Doran

Editors’ Picks: Our Favourite Albums And Tracks

John Doran, Luke Turner, Rory Gibb and Laurie Tuffrey sift through 2013's releases to bring you a guide to their favourite albums and tracks

The Sound Of Rain: Mark Fell And The Quietest Room In Europe

John Doran speaks to the renowned leftfield electronic music producer and sound installation creator about 64 Beautiful Phase Violations - an experiment in an anechoic chamber. With thanks to Rory Gibb and Kit Turner for essential moral and technical guidance. Features embedded short documentary. Mark Fell portrait by Connie Treanor

Friday Mixtapes For Your Aural Delectation

Imaginary Forces And Mud People Bring The Hardcore And Electro

Many Rivers Crossed: Jimmy Cliff Interviewed

John Doran talks to a true original and the owner of one of the sweetest voices in popular music, Mr Jimmy Cliff

WATCH: Gary Oldman In New Bowie Video

NSFW - especially if you work for the pope

Gone But Still Reigning: Jeff Hanneman And Slayer Live

Over the last decade John Doran has written more Slayer live reviews than he can actually remember. This one sums up why the group means so much to him. Photographs of Slayer live courtesy of Maria Jefferis/Shot2Bits

Jeff Hanneman Of Slayer R.I.P.

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Electro Chaabi In Cairo: Part V – Street Wisdom

Cairo's streets contain different forms of danger. John Doran spends his last evening with the artist and photographer Ayman Ramadan

LOOP To Reform! Oh Frabjous Day! All Evil & Snideness Is Vanquished!

Robert Hampson announces reunion of band via Facebook

Electro Chaabi In Cairo: Part IV – Filming The Revolutionary Party

"Don't politicise the music" was a warning given to John Doran before setting off for Cairo. Easier said than done... part four of his blog where he meets the film maker Salma el Tarzi

Electro Chaabi In Cairo: Part III – In The Valley Of The Keyboard King

The third of John Doran's blogs from Cairo sees him meet Nile Delta Synth star Islam Chipsy and learn a salutary lesson in heeding his own warnings

Electro Chaabi In Cairo: Part II – The Wedding Of The Year

In the second of his blog posts reporting from Egypt, John Doran travels just out of Cairo to Salam City - to the birthplace of Electro Chaabi and the marriage of its founding MC, Sadat

Electro Chaabi In Cairo: Part I – A High Speed Ballet

John Doran is spending a week in Cairo to report on the city's new Electro Chaabi scene. He's keeping a blog while there, and this is the first part

Chi Cheng Of Deftones Passes Away

tQ On 6Music Freakier Zone Talkin’ BM

Quality wireless listening tonight

Expensive Silence: Carter Tutti & Holly Herndon At Salford Sonic Fusion

Quietus editor John Doran recently paid a visit to the Salford Sonic Fusion Festival. He recalls spellbinding, acidic and deeply psychedelic performances from Chris Carter & Cosey Fanni Tutti's site-specific Harmonic Coaction and US laptop virtuoso Holly Herndon

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Time To Get Ill: Fat White Family Interviewed

Horrible little shits or a lovely bunch of lads? John Doran visits Fat White Family's pub in Brixton ahead of tonight's gig to find out

My Chemical Romance Quit

LISTEN: Beyonce’s Bow Down Here

Unexpected new direction for Bey?

Radical Abstraction: Andy Votel On Andrzej Korzynski

In advance of a talk this Friday at the Kinoteka Polish Film Festival at London's Rich Mix, Andy Votel talks to John Doran about the story of Polish film composer and leftfield music pioneer Andrzej Korzynski and his "freer than space jazz" synthesiser music

Simon Petrovitch Of Comanechi On Gardening

Originally published in the August Plant Journal, John Doran talks to the noise rock guitarist about tending one's own patch. Comanechi play the Lexington for Wire:Drill London on March 22nd

Melancholy Euphoria: A Heterotic Interview & Full Album Stream

Lara Rix-Martin and Mike Paradinas of Heterotic and Nick Talbot of Gravenhurst talk to John Doran; stream their collaborative LP Love & Devotion in full here

LIVE REPORT: Deathcrush

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WATCH: New David Bowie Video – The Stars (Are Out Tonight)

Take a look at the video for Bowie's second surprise release of the year, new single 'The Stars (Are Out Tonight)'

Jeepers Creepers: Marc Riley’s Favourite Albums

BBC 6 Music DJ Marc Riley and former member of The Fall, The Creepers and The Lost Soul Crusaders talks to John Doran about his favourite LPs

Marc Riley On Interviewing Lou Reed

All roads in music journalism lead to one place: a fraught conversation with a moody Lou Reed. Marc Riley remembers his two encounters with Chuckles

Why I Hate The Cult Of Bill Hicks, By John Doran

Based on a piece originally written for the dear departed Plan B magazine in 2007. With thanks to my then commissioning editors Frances Morgan and Kicking_K

Ennio Morricone

Morricone In Colour Box Set

LIVE REPORT: Kraftwerk Tate Modern

John Doran has a funny turn in the church of the modern. Live photos by Katja Ogrin, see more here

Two Reasons Why Frisk Frugt Is Flipping Brilliant

There are two albums by Anders Lauge Meldgaard up in this feature. John Doran is imploring you to buy both of them